Mary Kamps was driving through Estabrook Park in late summer and spotted the little house with the white pillars. She drives by often. But on this day she was inspired to stop.

“I had not been to see it for 20 years,” she said of the home, the oldest documented house in Milwaukee. “So I thought I’d stop and read the little sign and just take a look at the place.” | Nov. 16, 2012»Read Full Blog Post(5)

Actors are taught to act and opera singers are taught to sing - and all too rarely do the twain really meet.

The Florentine Opera Company's production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," directed by Candace Evans, cast that notion aside Friday evening with a spot-on blend of absolutely sterling singing and audience-connected acting. | May 11, 2013»Read Full Article

While her father is out of town on business, her mother takes a lover. When her father comes home, Mom and her new consort stab him. She herself is thrown out of the house. Her baby brother now lives in exile.

No wonder Electra has a complex. The question is whether her righteous anger regarding the murder of her father (Agamemnon) can justify plotting with her brother (Orestes) to murder Mom (Clytemnestra) and Mom's new squeeze (Aegisthus). | May 11, 2013»Read Full Article